“ He succeeded his father as professor of medieval French literature at the Collège de France in 1872; in 1876 he was admitted to the Academy of Inscriptions and in 1896 to the French Academy; and in 1895 he was appointed director of the Collège de France. Gaston Paris won a European reputation as a Romance scholar. He had learnt German methods of exact research, but besides being an accurate philologist he was a literary critic of great acumen and breadth of view, and brought a singularly clear mind to bear on his favourite study of medieval French literature. ”

“ Penseurs et poètes (1897) ; Poèmes et légendes du moyen âge (1900) ; François Villon (1901) , an admirable monograph contributed to the “ Grands Écrivains Français ” series; Légendes du moyen âge (1903) . ”